Fate plays a crucial role in the play Antigone as well as other plays by Sophocles. Fate is something that will not change to anyone’s wishes. Fate is predestined and will occur even if you try to resist it. Like the story of her grandfather Laius. Who tried to kill his son, so he wouldn’t kill him but he couldn’t escape fate and Oedipus killed Laius.

In Antigone, there is no escaping fate her whole life was predestined to be cursed. When the story begins she has already suffered the shame of her father, and then goes on to lose both her brothers. When Antigone goes against Creon’s order that Polynices will not be buried and will be left to rot she is going against Creon and the Gods. She knows that the consequences will be death and still she chooses to do it because it is her fate to rebel and die.  The prophecies in the play also display that fate is inescapable and it is omniscient. When the old blind prophet comes in and tells Creon that his son will die but no stranger shall kill him. Creon doesn’t believe it but fate yet again succeeds and Haemon kills himself, Creon’s son. Everything that occurs in the text has all been predestined by fate. From Antigone’s birth to Haemon falling in love with her have all been predestined and there is no escaping it. The characters in the play should embrace fate and accept it because it seems that there is no escape. When it seems like she has escaped from a tragic death, and Creon’s is coming to free her but she has already died. Although making choices and decisions seem to be of free will it is really just fate allowing you to think that you have a choice in life. But, the truth is that fate is omniscient and omnipotent.